berkeley Archives

Movies

Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond &… Milli Vanilli?

Dennis Harvey - April 16, 2024

The German-language film fest keeps broadening its borders. Plus: Ken Loach's finale 'Old Oak' and 'Dig! XX'

Art

The Great Migration travels beyond South to North in ‘Movement in Every Direction’

Lou Fancher - April 10, 2024

A BAMPFA show expands how we think about one of the biggest mass movements in US history.

Food & Drink

Try this fudgy, grassy, mouth-numbing cheese—before it’s gone forever

Cydney Hayes - April 4, 2024

The Bay Area is already unmatched in indie grocery store quality (Bi-Rite, Berkeley Bowl, Rainbow Grocery, Good Life, Other Avenues...), but Gus’s Community Market...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: The Stud is finally reopening—come get a sneak peek!

Marke B. - April 4, 2024

Plus: RIP Rumi Missabu, The Blessed Madonna, Dalit Dreamlands, KPFA's 75th anniversary, Drunk Drag, Chocolate Festival, more

Media

The New York Times lauds Garry Tan—and it’s really pathetic

Tim Redmond - April 2, 2024

A front-page profile turns San Francisco into a parody and so badly misses the point that it's an embarrassment.

Music

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum returns, just in time for the rise of the machines

Daniel Bromfield - April 2, 2024

Oakland avant-prog outfit's 'of the Last Human Being' employs sledgehammer dulcimers, cartoon xylophones, and 'The Wiggler.'

Art

Sticking to it: The packing tape art of Pablo Manga

Mary Corbin - April 2, 2024

A chance encounter with the medium outside a Mexico City metro station changed the Oakland artist's trajectory.

Stage Review

Shotgun’s ‘Midsummer’ misfires with broad caricatures, ‘Family Guy’ gags

Charles Lewis III - April 2, 2024

The chemistry is good, but director William Hodgson buries Shakespeare's classic in "go big" gestures.

Onstage

102-year-old heroine Betty Reid Soskin’s journey premieres on Bay Area stage

Lou Fancher - March 28, 2024

Writings and songs by the nation's oldest park ranger and longtime activist form base of 'Sign My Name To Freedom.'

Food & Drink

Good Taste: SF’s beloved Secret Breakfast ice cream is now a weed strain

Tamara Palmer - March 27, 2024

Cannabis collaboration with Sonoma Hills Farm brings new heights of cool to Humphry Slocombe’s oft-imitated flavor.

Tagged with: berkeley